Program areas at Richmond SPCA
Our susan m. markel veterinary hospital is a full-service facility providing quality care at low cost for pets of income-qualified families in the greater Richmond region and those adopted from our humane center. Our hospital ensures families of all means have access To treatment options they can afford for their animal companions. As an expansion of the Richmond Spca's pet-retention services, our susan m. markel veterinary hospital helps pets stay with their families while enjoying a greater quality of life.
Humane education at the Richmond Spca includes programs for both children and adults that instill compassion, kindness, and empathy for both humans and Animals, develop character and promote responsible care for all creatures. Programs delivered in fiscal year 2023 included summer camp, public training classes and seminars, a day training service and virtual programming.
Our staff and volunteers delivered loving care and enrichment To 4,433 homeless Animals - both in our humane center and in foster homes. the overwhelming majority of pets we brought into our care were ones we transferred from under resourced government shelters. In total, we partnered with 72 shelters last year (59 of which were in Virginia) To bring vulnerable pets into our care. the remaining pets the Richmond Spca took into our care were ones surrendered To us by their former owners or who were found stray by good samaritans or who were abandoned. More than 3,800 homeless pets in our humane center required crucial veterinary treatment, which our professional medical staff delivered, for a variety of illnesses and injuries prior To adoption To lasting homes in our community.
the Richmond Spca smoky's spay & neuter clinic provides sterilization services To pets in the care of other shelters and rescue organizations as well as To unowned free-roaming cats brought To us by caregivers performing trap-neuter-vaccinate-return (tnvr).